Editing Dylan Klebold (section)

== Early Life ==
[[File:Young_Dylan_Klebold.jpg|thumb|left|184px|Dylan in his younger days.]]
Dylan Klebold was born on September 11<sup>th</sup>, 1981, in Lakewood, Colorado. He was a child of upper middle class parents, considered gifted in grammar school. During his earlier school years, he played T-ball, baseball and soccer.

He was in Cub Scouts with friend Brooks Brown, a boy he had been friends with since the first grade. He met Eric Harris while attending Ken Caryl Middle School in the seventh or eighth grade and it turned out that Brooks Brown lived near the house Eric's parents had recently bought, and rode the same bus as Eric.

Not long after that Eric introduced Dylan to his friend Nathan "Nate" Dykeman, who also attended Ken Caryl, and the boys all became good friends. As a quiet teen interested in technology, Klebold didn’t fit in with the dominant jock culture of Columbine High School. He developed a hatred of school -- a sentiment shared by Harris. The two adopted the style of the school’s outcast clique, the Trench Coat Mafia, wearing long coats, dark clothing, and looking unkempt, and reportedly hung around the group’s periphery.

Although he was bright, Klebold didn’t apply himself in school and earned mediocre grades. Intelligent, Klebold was in a program for gifted students at his elementary school. He was described as a shy child who loved baseball, especially the Boston Red Sox. By ninth grade, he was friends with Eric Harris and Brooks Brown. Klebold also enjoyed bowling and worked behind the scenes for school productions as a sound man. With Harris, he worked at a local pizza place for a time.